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After reading the thread about ridiculous hardware requirements I felt like building a period correct system for playing Doom 3 with hardware available at release. Perhaps there are others with period correct hardware who wants to contribute results to a toplist? Who has the lo. Fastest period correct Doom 3 system? When Doom 3 was released the best Intel CPUs were the Northwood, Prescott 5xx, Gallatin and the Dothan. The best AMD CPUs were different flavours of single core K8 (Athlon 64/Opteron). When it comes to motherboards the latest chipsets for Intel CPUs were i875P, i865, i915 and i925X.

For AMD the latest chipsets at the Doom 3 release were the Nforce3 and the VIA K8T800 PRO. Update: Note that the period correct hardware cut off has been changed to 2004-12-31 and even some later A64 steppings such as the San Diego are allowed in many cases as they perform the same as the Clawhammer core and many year 2004 A64 models were made using both core revisions. Read the clarification below. When it comes to Video Cards, PCI-E was the new hot thing and the top cards were the ATI X800 XT PE and the Geforce 6800 Ultra. The ATI X850 series only adds PCI-E interface to the X800 series so we can include those aswell. SLI and Crossfire were not available to the wide public in August 2004 so no dual action in the period correct list.

(late Nov for SLI, early 2005 for Crossfire if I remember correctly) Of course all older hardware is also OK, so is new systems but the idea is to run somewhat period correct hardware. Iphone 7 there. Too new systems will have their own separate toplists. If your system is overclocked then write something like this 'P4 Northwood 2.8(200)@3200(228), DDR1@456(CL2,2,2,5)' and so on so people quickly can see why just your system perform so well. Update: it seems the DEMO cant run the timedemo, Im trying to find a fix. The Doom 3 demo can be found here: Press 'Ctrl + Alt + ~' to bring the console down The command to run the timedemo is 'timedemo demo1 1' The last 1 is to buffer the demo, otherwise a second run will always be faster.

Update: The Doom 3 DEMO will not run the timedemo and no fix exists, you need the real game. Update: Doom 3 version 1.0 is faster than version 1.3 and 1.31. If a system looks a bit too slow in the list this could be the reason, many of my own scores were made using this slower version.

The performance difference varies depending on the system. Less when it comes to period correct systems, more with modern systems. Less with a GPU bottleneck, more with a CPU bottleneck. If you own a physical copy of Doom 3, install from your discs and do not update to the latest version! If you already own the Steam version and can't find an original disc on Ebay be creative. Sceeenshots showing results and computer spec posted in the thread is encouraged but not required.

More details are better than less but when writing your spec for the entry it's good to look at the length of other entries and what information is included as I will butcher every entery so it 'fits'. If unsure what to inlcude just include everything and I will shorten it down. // Clarification and changes when it comes to period correct CPUs, chipsets and video cards. Discussion about the rules can be found in the thread.

Intel CPUs: If the CPU was released in 2004 or earlier. Top CPUs: P4 570, P4 EE 3.4 and P4 EE 3.46. Dothan Pentium M 765. Intel chipsets. All chipsets released 2004 and earlier. All versions of the i915 chipset are allowed as they are basicly the same thing just targeted at different brackets. Top chipsets: i875P, i865, i915, i925X, i925XE.

AMD CPUs: ALL single core socket 754/939/940 (but not AM2) CPUs with a default speed of 2.6* GHz or less. (Even San Diego and Venice).

Top CPUs: A64 FX55, Opteron 152/252*, Opteron 250*. Opteron 152 and 252 entries will be called something like 'Opteron 152 (FX55)' as they are allowed only because they are the same thing as a San Diego FX55. AMD chipsets. All chipsets released 2004 and earlier. The nForce4 Pro/32 chipset is allowed even though it's technicly a year 2005 chipset as the 18 extra PCI-E lanes bolted on using 'CK8-04' isn't used when using a single video card. Top AMD chipsets. Nvidia nForce3 and nForce4, VIA K8T800, K8T800 Pro and K8T890.

*If the system uses two CPUs then max 2.4 GHz which corresponds to the Opteron 250. A dual 2.6 GHz Opteron system was not available before the date Feb 14 2005. Nvidia video cards.